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On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 02:39:05 GMT, Charles Gray wrote:
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 01:37:20 GMT, Fred J. McCall wrote: (phil hunt) wrote: :The UK has very small armed forced considering the size of the :country's defence budget. Compare the UK (Population 59 :million, spends 2.5% of GDP on arms) ordering 220 Typhoons whereas :Sweden (population 9 million, spends 2% of GDP on arms) can order :almost as many (204) Gripens. Even taking into account that Britain :spends a larger proportion of its defense budget on its navy, and :the Typhoon's unit cost is larger than the Gripen's, there's :something wrong here. Britain spends money on things that Sweden does not, of course. Strategic weaponry is expensive to develop and maintain. Not to mention the abilty to quickly deploy-- how long woudl it take Sweden to move a unit of soldiers to the Middle East, or move them prepared to fight at the end of the journey. If there for a real need for them to deploy -- such as an invasion of an EU country (for example in a future scenario where Turkey is in the EU), they would no doubt go by road. -- "It's easier to find people online who openly support the KKK than people who openly support the RIAA" -- comment on Wikipedia (Email: , but first subtract 275 and reverse the last two letters). |
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